August 20th, 1968
200,000 Warsaw Pact troops and 5,000 tanks invade Czechoslovakia to end the "Prague Spring" of political liberalization. event on August 20, 1968. Read about how to open files in Open File Database.
Events around August 20, 1968
| August 21st, 1968 | Event | James Anderson, Jr. posthumously receives the first Medal of Honor to be awarded to an African American U.S. Marine. |
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